United Peoples Freedom Alliance victory:

‘Endorsement of President’s policies’

S. M. Jiffrey Abdeen Kandy South Group Corr.

The landslide victory gained by the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) is a further endorsement by the people especially the people of the South of the leadership and policies of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, said Central Province Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake. He made these observations after UPFA’s massive victory at the Southern Provincial Council polls last Saturday.

With this victory the UPFA has made a clean sweep of all the Provincial polls held since last year having registered resounding victories in North Western Province, North Central, Sabaragamuwa, Western Province and Uva Province Provincial Council polls.

He said the people are educated and can no longer be hoodwinked by the prophets of doom who attempt to paint a gloomy picture of the economy which is strong as ever despite the global economic recession faced by other countries. People have grown to accept the policies envisaged in the Mahinda Chinthanaya which is being implemented to the fullest with vast development work is being carried out.

The Hambantota port, Airport, sports stadia, express highways, government office complexes and improvement of the network of roads creating job opportunities and improving the income of the people are some of the policies which have caught the inspired the people in general, he said.

The Chief Minister said the opposition has hardly anything to offer against this massive development work and they only offer feeble excuses take umbrage in a very minor issues which the public hardly take any notice.

This victory in the Southern Province polls will further strengthen the hands of President Rajapaksa who had already done the impossible by crushing terrorism and liberated the people from fear and terror of the which is the biggest gift he could have given to the people, Ekanayake said.